Throughout my medical school career, I have encountered various electronic health record (EHR) systems. From the era of having paper charts, and writing orders and notes in by hand, we have come a long way, where literally everything in a patient’s chart is virtually electronic. Some clinics do not have even paper charts anymore. In […]

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